We cordially invite you to a lecture for the expert public by Mgr. Danuše Tarkowská, Ph.D., from the Laboratory of Growth Regulators of Palacky University and the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i.
The lecture takes place on February 29 from 12:00 in auditorium B11/205.
Abstract
Since 1665, when the British polymath Robert Hooke (1635-1703) first constructed a microscope, we have known that the basic structural and functional unit of living matter is the cell. According to the still valid theory introduced in 1838 (M.J. Schleiden and T. Schwann), every organism is made up of one or more cells that exchange matter and energy with the environment and come from other (mother) cells from which they receive genetic information. For cell-cell communication, these cells use chemical compounds, so-called chemical messengers, which are divided into different groups according to their structure. Each cell synthesizes chemical messengers de novo and each group of them in different amounts. Some are produced and function in cells only at concentrations < 1 ppm (1 µg/g). This is a concentration area referred to as the trace, or ultra-trace, and the analysis of such substances is then called trace, or ultra-trace. In order to understand the significance, range, and minute details of the intercellular communication network as deeply as possible, we need to find the tools to detect these trace chemical messengers as their non-negligible functional unit.
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